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Iris Blandón-Gitlin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
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Teaching
interests: Psychology and Law, Cognitive
Psychology, Memory, and Introduction to Psychology
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Research
interests: Dr. Blandon-Gitlin conducts
empirical research on issues at the intersection
of psychology and law. Currently she has projects
investigating (a) conditions under which memories
for non-experienced events (i.e., false memories)
are more likely to develop, (b) aspects of children's
suggestibility, (c) validity of verbal lie detection
methods, (d) the role cognitive load (mental
load) plays in liars' verbal and non-verbal behaviors,
(e) jurors' perceptions of police interrogation
tactics and their evaluation of confession evidence
elicited from those tactics.
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Brief
biography: In 2005 I earned my PhD in
Applied Cognitive Psychology from Claremont Graduate
University under the mentorship of Dr. Kathy
Pezdek.
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